Cops await FBI report on US national's credentials

New Delhi: Two days after an American national was detained for carrying a knife concealed inside a herbal plant, Shilajit, Delhi Police said they have sent the plant for chemical analysis and the report is awaited. The US national, Winston Marshal Carmichael (61), spend the third day at the Lampur detention centre as the security agencies were checking his statements besides awaiting clearance from the FBI.
Carmichael was detained in the wee hours of February 10 when he was to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha. The CISF personnel who spotted a suspicious object during the screening of his hand baggage alerted the officials and he was detained. Since then he has been questioned extensivly by various agencies.
Carmichael has told his interrogators that he has been on a religious package tour during which he wanted to visit Indian mosques. He also told police that he used to own a farmhouse and shifted to New York from Jamaica five years ago. "Born to American parents and father of 19 children from three wives, he has a son who is an athlete and carried the Olympic torch for the country last year while his other children are also doing well in their fields. He also claimed to be teaching students at a school,'' said a police officer.
The US Mission here was informed about the arrest after which a team of FBI officials is coordinating with Indian agencies. Carmichael, a resident of New York, worked as a carpenter. He was carrying a knife (4.3 by 1.5 inches) which he reportedly bought from Paksitan.
12/02/10 Times of India

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